Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268235AbUIGRJ1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 13:09:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268322AbUIGQ5u (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 12:57:50 -0400 Received: from mx02.qsc.de ([213.148.130.14]:16769 "EHLO mx02.qsc.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268190AbUIGQzs (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 12:55:48 -0400 Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 18:55:26 +0200 From: Gunnar Ritter Organization: Privat. To: Spam Cc: ReiserFS List , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Message-ID: <413DE7FE.nailD9I11PGNI@pluto.uni-freiburg.de> References: <200409070206.i8726vrG006493@localhost.localdomain> <413D4C18.6090501@slaphack.com> <1183150024.20040907143346@tnonline.net> <413DD5B4.nailC801GI4E2@pluto.uni-freiburg.de> <1401724342.20040907182551@tnonline.net> In-Reply-To: <1401724342.20040907182551@tnonline.net> User-Agent: nail 11.6 9/7/04 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1276 Lines: 27 Spam wrote: > > Spam wrote: > >> One suggestion is missed. It is to provide system calls for copy. > >> That would also solve the problem. > > No, it would not. If you read the POSIX.1 specification for cp > > carefully , you will > > notice that the process for copying a regular file is carefully > > standardized. A POSIX.1-conforming cp implementation would not > > be allowed to copy additional streams, unless either additional > > options are given or the type of the file being copied is other > > than S_IFREG. And cp is just one example of a standardized file > > handling program. > It would solve the problem in Linux. However, it may not be POSIX.1 > compatible. On the other hand I read that NTFS 5.0 is POSIX.1 > compliant - and Windows uses copy system call. You should obviously take a thorough read of at least the Base Definitions, section 2, 'Conformance' of POSIX.1 before you further comment on this issue. Gunnar - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/